On a daily basis and on all hacking oriented communities, people ask how to start or to get into Infosec. I decided to maintain a post where I collect my ressources regarding (beginner) learning ressources. I am learning towards an infosec position for a while now and I am now a junior pentester at a german netsec company for about 4 months. I have backgrounds as a professional webdesigner and also little web-development.

Practical learning

• TryHackMe.com THE BEST.
• HackTheBox – online pentesting labs
• OverTheWire – online pentesting labs
• Exploit.Education – binary exploiting courses
• Vulnhub.com – vulnerable machines for download
• ImmersiveLabs if you’re lucky to have an .edu mail
• PortSwigger Web Security Academy – online pentesting labs w/ solutions
• Sololearn – gamified coding on the go
• Hacker101 – HackerOne learning platform

Reading

• Smashing The Stack For Fun And Profit by Aleph1
• https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books/blob/master/free-programming-interactive-tutorials-en.md

Videolearning & Courses

• https://www.cybrary.it/
• https://media.ccc.de/
• LiveOverflow
• https://media.defcon.org/
• https://www.youtube.com/user/BlackHatOfficialYT
• MIT Open Courseware

Channels and Shows

• LiveOverflow
• darknet diaries

Social

• r/cybersecurity
• r/netsec
• r/netsecstudents
• #shodansafari
• hacktivity hackerOne

News

• Cyware App

Hacker Spirit and Roots

• http://phrack.org/
• https://cultdeadcow.com/
• ccc.de

Movies to watch

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_(film) very good german hacker movie 🙂
• Mr. Robot
• Matrix of course

tbc